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SiliconDust Dual HD Digital Tuner
$69.99 + $5 Standard OR $10 Two-Day OR $20 One-Day Shipping
Condition: New

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waiting around for the crunchy over bacon is started to make this place smell like leathery burnt bacon....

Back to Wootality.

is this really the last woot off???

I'm intrigued by this thing, but not $75 intrigued.

Woodman668 wrote:Second.

Meh, I never could count. I beat the wootbot once a while back... still proud of that.

Seriously though, I'f I didn't already have a nice digital tuner like this, I'd be in for one (or three, you know, if I could clone myself). It's a legitimately solid piece of hardware. And, for those of us who tune some or all of our channels over the air, it's a handy tool!

Wi-Fi? No? Just wired network? Meh.

Compatible

Windows Media Center
Elgato EyeTV - DVR for bacon press
MythTV - DVR for Linux
SnapStream BeyondTV - DVR for Windows
SageTV - DVR for Windows/Linux/bacon press
MediaPortal - DVR for Windows
GB-PVR - DVR for Windows
VLC - Multi-platform media viewer
TSReader - MPEG-2 transport stream analysis

karisk81 wrote:I'm intrigued by this thing, but not $75 intrigued.

Ditto

mitchloft wrote:Wi-Fi? No? Just wired network? Meh.

Have to plug into Coax anyway.. most people have that near their router.

can you record DVD's from the files ? another words do you have access to convert whats recorded on DVR to a DVD?

karisk81 wrote:I'm intrigued by this thing, but not $75 intrigued.

Think of it as a functional over the air digital tuner, which is also compatible with QAM unencrypted digital cable. Now think of it as not being just hooked up to one computer, but all computers in the house.

Every $500 computer now becomes a $40 television! Awesome, huh?

Well, it is, dang it.

john398 wrote:can you record DVD's from the files ? another words do you have access to convert whats recorded on DVR to a DVD?

depends on what DVR you use.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Archiving_Recordings_to_DVD

looks like a vacuum cleaner.

lazloH wrote:depends on what DVR you use.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Archiving_Recordings_to_DVD

Thanks

Woot sure does want us to sit around on our butts all day staring at streaming media...
tv's Roku's and this

No CableCard though?

So basically unless your cable company has unencrypted channels you are stuck with overt the air broadcasts (and you would need an antenna)

I have one they work great, I wanted another and it was gone way too fast!!

TeknoKid wrote:No CableCard though?

So basically unless your cable company has unencrypted channels you are stuck with overt the air broadcasts (and you would need an antenna)

Most cable companies use QAM over cable broadcasting of over the air channels, information channels, and some limited offerings; mine also oddly broadcasts all pay per view movies over one of ten unencrypted QAM channels. So, umm, I've tripped over quite a few specials for free this way.

Kingu wrote:Most cable companies use QAM over cable broadcasting of over the air channels, information channels, and some limited offerings; mine also oddly broadcasts all pay per view movies over one of ten unencrypted QAM channels. So, umm, I've tripped over quite a few specials for free this way.

Nothing like free cheat sheet thanks to your neighbors. :P

Does anyone who's received a shipment confirmation email have any actual tracking information yet? I got my shipping email last Thursday night and the tracking link takes me to the USPS tracking page and no information. Assuming it's been sent via Smartpost, I tried the trick of using my order number to "track by reference" with Fedex, but even that still shows nothing.

Just following up on my earlier post. My order showed up at my door today before any tracking information appeared online. It was sent via SmartPost but the usual track by reference trick didn't work and the USPS tracking didn't update until after the delivery.

Anyway, I hooked this thing up (via a switch I purchased on Woot quite a while ago BTW) and so far this thing is awesome!

The connection from the HD Homerun is wired to the router, but so far it's working really well in Windows Media Center on both my wired and wireless networked computers. In fact I've got the Media Center live TV window in the background as I type this on my wireless ultra-portable notebook. Very, very cool!

The only downside so far is that Amazon is currently matching the price Woot charged for this and obviously that includes free shipping, so Amazon is the better deal by $5.